Re: System Security Audits

From: Dave Piscitello (dave@corecom.com)
Date: Thu Dec 11 2003 - 07:52:39 EST


I agree that chasing malware, trojans, viruses, etc. makes CD burning
difficult.

W/R/T permissions, auditing, user rights assignment and other local and
group policies, you might also want to look at the Center for Internet
Security's Auditing Tools and security templates (http://www.cisecurity.org).

Lastly, you didn't mention security patches and hot fixes. Shavlik has an
excellent tool HFnetchkPro, for individual and networked patch management
at http://www.shavlik.com/ It's license free for up to 10 PCs. They also
have an enterprise policy checker and accounts checker. These are the folks
who developed MBSA for Microsoft.

At 12:00 AM 11/29/2003 +0200, Peteris Krumins wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a question about doing system (Windows) security
> audits.
> By system security audits I mean things like checking if computer
> is free of malware, trojans, viruses, if user has appropriate
> permissions (not too high or to say if user has restrictive
> permissions) etc.
>
> I have a couple of ideas which i could use, one is to create
> an universal CD with all the stuff needed. Everything is on the
> CD, nothing will be installed on the client's computer.
> The Audit Team just puts CD in, runs applications and that's it.
>
> The other is to bool from a CD on the client's computer
> which would bring us to some different environment (probably
> linux). As booted mount the filesystems and do all the
> audit stuff from such environment.
>
> Or, please, suggest any other methods that could be used.
>
>
>P.Krumins
>
>
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